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Scopus is a navigation tool covering the world's largest collection of abstracts, references and indexes of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature. Seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources make Scopus quick, easy and comprehensive. Compatible with IE8 or higher, Google Chrome and Firefox browsers

The Web of Science (citation indexes), published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences, social sciences and arts. It indexes major journals in these disciplines. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work. The search interface at this web site provides access to Science Citation Index,Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index

An online comprehensive resource for information and multimedia on all species of birds worldwide. HBW Alive contains detailed information, illustrations, maps and other material on all the bird species of the world. The contents are constantly updated by professional editors and moderated user participation via "wikicontributions". There are more than 50,000 videos, photographs and sounds which are linked for quick and easy access. Each species account also includes a bibliography of the references used. HBW Alive also has a geographic tree which can be used to see species lists of the birds of every country of the world.

Access is restricted to computers with a Zoology Department IP-address. A username and password is also required. Contact the Subject Specialist for more information and a password.

BNA contains comprehensive life histories for each of the 700+ species of birds breeding in the USA and Canada. Species accounts are updated frequently, with contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. In addition, BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing plumages, behaviours, habitat, nests and eggs, and more. Most accounts now feature recordings of the songs and calls of their species, recordings selected from the extensive collection of Cornell's Macaulay Library.

ELS features more than 5,000 articles written by leaders in the field to provide comprehensive coverage of each subject area. All articles are accompanied by colour illustrations and tables. Appendix and glossary material provide essential information for the non-specialist, including biochemical and taxonomic information, acronyms, synonyms, units and other technical data. Importantly, since all articles have been peer-reviewed a balanced representation of the literature is ensured.

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. There are several Biological Sciences dictionaries available, as well as the Oxford English Dictionary.